Today I replaced the springs of two controllers/sticks. The sticks didn’t center anymore, after the replacement the centering is perfect! I also added a cable membrane to fixate the replacement cable in a fixed position. Console5 offers new springs: https://console5.com/store/vectrex-joystick-centering-springs-brand-new-replacements.html
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HP Vectra PSU not working
PSU Brand: NMB Partno.: J09PA-01204060D Transistor Q20 (BUX86P) was broken, it was getting hot as I look at the board. There was glue arround Q20 & R201 that came very very hard. My guess is that because of the glue the pins of Q20 have been pulled out of the solder joints and caused even […]
Vectrex Controller Cable Membrane
I designed a membrane to attach a replacement joystick cable to a Vectrex controller. Easy to attach and hold the replacement cable inplace. Download model from thingiverse See my other designs..
The Picasso that didn’t want to paint
Next up is an interesting Picasso IV Zorro 3 board that I’ve worked on earlier this year. A friend gave it to me for repair with the comment: it doesn’t do anything. Symptoms: no autoconfig (not visible in earlyboot) no video Diagnostics So, after visually looking around the board, I noticed some bad solderings on […]
CDTV CDROM no data discs repair
This time a Commodore CDTV arrived on my workbench with the following symptoms: Plays audio cd fine Does not load CDROM (CDTV) discs After checking that the CD mechanism worked fine using an audio CD I tested with several CDTV discs both original and recordables. During loading the CD spins up OK and there is […]